Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsueh Ling’s (薛凌) husband, Sunny Bank chairman Chen Shen-hung (陳勝宏), was sentenced to three years and two months in prison by the Taiwan High Court yesterday for involvement in a loan scandal at Sunny Bank.
Hsueh was found not guilty in the same ruling.
Hsueh, Chen, Hsueh’s brother Hsueh Tsung-hsien (薛宗賢), Sunny Bank official Ho Ming-lung (何明龍) and Chen Yi-yuan (陳益源) were indicted over violations of the Banking Act (銀行法) and forgery in August 2007.
Hsueh Ling and Chen Shen-hung were found not guilty by the Shih-lin District Court in the first trial, but in the second ruling yesterday, the High Court said that as the bank’s chairman, Chen must have known the loan of more than NT$4 million (US$136,933) he authorized was questionable
The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence that Hsueh Ling was involved in the process.
Chen Shen-hung was sentenced to three years and two months in prison and was fined NT$3.2 million by the High Court.
Hsueh Tsung-hsien and Sunny Bank officials Ho and Chen Yi-yuan were all sentenced to four years in prison.
Ho and Chen Yi-yuan were fined NT$4 million, while Hsueh Tsung-hsien was fined NT$5 million.
The High Court ruling said the defendants as well as the prosecutors could appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
Prosecutors charged that in 2002, Sunny Bank official Ho and Chen Yi-yuan told Hsueh Tsung-hsien that the Chinese-language Chunghwa Daily newspaper was selling a building in Taipei for about NT$400 million and urged him to buy the property.
Prosecutors say Hsueh Tsung-hsien then bought the building and forged the contract, raising the sale price to NT$500 million, and took the forged contract to Sunny Bank to request a loan of more than NT$4 million against the deal.
Prosecutors argued that Hsueh Ling, her husband and two of his close assistants, Ho and Chen Yi-yuan, all knew the contract was forged and that they conspired to authorize the loan.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater